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110,461,627. 4 Patented 0ot.20,1891.

UNITED STATES .Ar-TENT Ormes,

GEORGE J. BUCKEY, lJR., AND OSCAR F. -FIRESTONE OF FREDERICK, MARYLAND; SAID FIRESTONE ASSIGNOR TO SAID BUCKEY, JR.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 461,627, dated October 20, 1891.

Application filed November 13,1890. Serial No. 371,299. (No model.)v

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE J. BUCKEY, Jr., and OSCAR F. FIRESTONE, citizens of the United States, residing at Frederick, in the county of Frederick and State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Plows, of which the following -is a speciiicatiomreference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The objects of ourimprovement are to provide a plow with a standard of suitable construction to facilitate the automatic discharge of weeds and trash therefrom under the rod; also, to provide simple and reliable means to give more or less land to the plow, and to provide means to retain one of the handles secured to the mold-board at a proper angle, said means being also employed to strengthen said mold-board. IVe attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of a plow constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of a portion of the same. Figx is a perspective view on a larger scale of the Wedge used to move the rear end of the beam laterally, said viewv showing the side of the wedge that is to rest against the plow-handle. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the standard. Fig. 5 is a transverse horizontal enlarged section of the same on line or x of Fig. 1.

In said drawings, A represents the beam; B, the standard, having the upper portion hollow, and its top l? provided with a perforation to receive bolt b2, by which it is secured to the beam. To one side of the standard is secured the mold-board C and its front plate C2 by means of bolts c. One side of the standard is provided with a horizontal overhanging shoulder b3, against which the upper edge of the mold-board and its front plate abut to relieve the bolts c of pressure.` The opposite side of the standard is also provided with an overhanging shoulder b4 for the upper edge of the landside D to abut against and thereby relieve the fastening-bolts of the landside of pressure.

To prevent the accumulation of weeds and trash against the front of the standard, the mold-board side b5 presents a face which is a continuation of the face of the mold-board,

so that one end of the weeds which may lie.

turned under the sod, and the landside of the standard is made convex and rounded at h6 to permit said weeds to slide uponxsaid rounded surface and the rounded front'edge of the standard and be wholly buried under the turned-over sod.

To provide a proper support for the lower portion of the left handle of the plow and also strengthen the rear portion or wing of the mold-board, the latter is provided on its inner side with a T-shaped rib, the head c2 of which serves as a support for the handle E and permits it to be secured to the vmoldboard at a proper angle by the bolt c4 imme* diately in frontof the head of the rib, and the body c3 of the rib extends reawardly along the back of the mold-board to strengthen it.

The front portion of the landside D is secured to the standard by bolts d. It is provided with a sole that extends laterally at D2 on the inner side, and also laterally at D3 beyond the outer face of the landside at the rear end thereof, and tapers so that it is even with the face of the landside at its front end.

To give more or less land to the plow, its beam is pivotally secured on top of the standard by the bolt b2, and its rear end is adj ustably secured to the handle E2 by means of a bolt e2,-passing horizontally through the rear end of a beam, through a slot f, closed at both ends and made longitudinally in a wedge F, and through the handle. Said wedge is preferably made of metal cast hol.

low, but having its upper or rear end f2 thicker than its point. It is also provided with a flanged upper side f3, adapted to rest upon the handle E2, and thus relieve the bolt e2 of the Weight of said wedge, besides retaining the wedge in proper position parallel with the handle upon which it rests. The rear end of the beam is rabbeted or formed with a shoulder a., that is made to abut against the top of wedge.

Having now fully described our invention, w'e claiml. In combination with the beam and moldboardof a plow, the standard B, having on one side a shoulder b3, resting upon the edge in front of 'the standard will be caught and' IOO of the mold-board, and above said shonlde a face b5, which is a continuation of the face of the mold-board, a convex face D on the opposite side of the face 115, and a rounded front edge perpendionlai'ly above the front edge of the mold-board, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. In combination With a plowstandard, its beam having a shoulder ct at its rear end pivoted thereto, and one of the handles of said plow, a Wedge longitudinallyslotted and having' the slot closed at both ends, and a boit passing through the real' end of the beam, through the slot of the wedge located on the inner side of one of thehandles and in 15 the rear of the Shoulder a, and throngh Said handle, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof Weaix oln'signatnl'es in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE J. BUCKEY, JR. OSCAR F. FIRESTONE.

\Vitnesses:

MARSHALL FOUT, 'FULTON Y. KESSELRING. 

